The American artist''s much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as "one of the few totally original books I have ever read.”
Joe Brainard''s
I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White.
As autobiography, Brainard''s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain "I remember": "I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail." Brainard''s enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years.
In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of
I Remember, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair,
More I Remember (1972) and
More I Remember More (1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard''s
I Remember Christmas, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings.
Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in
Interview,
Gay Sunshine,
The World and the
New York Herald. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title
I Remember This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
192 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Granary Books |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2001-03-22 |
| ISBN |
9781887123488 |
